These directions are from Howard -- after seeing his winning image people were asking him how he envisioned and created it. Howard was nice enough to share this with everyone! Lisa
How to Create a Globe
1: Crop your photo into a square
2: From the Filter Menu apply Distort-Polar Coordinates
3: Select “Polar to Rectangular” cick OK
4: Rotate image 180 degrees
5: From the Filter Menu apply Distort-Polar Coordinates
This time select “Rectagular to Polar” click OK
Done
I asked Howard to send me his winning photo too!!